Who here has written a book?

I know for sure that Valerie publishes them through Amazon. My mother in law wrote and published a book in Italy the "traditional way", giving the manuscript to a publisher.

My sister wrote three, and she self published them through Amazon. She sold about 500 to 600 copies of each through Amazon, give or take a few. They were sort of like from her blogging, and people told her she ought to put them in book form. She talked about it on Facebook, which led to several Christian speaking engagements and small women’s conferences after people read them. I don’t think she bothered sending them to a publisher or agent, but she probably should. I’d buy yours if you wrote it. I don’t care what it would be about.

I wrote and published in my native language. I wrote short stories. A couple of them were translated and went to anthologies in English. But I am not writing fiction anymore.

I can't help but there is some useful information in the comments. Good luck if you decide to publish in some way.

Something I like to think about, but never get around to doing... so far!

I wrote my children's picture book done in rhyme many years ago. I tried to get it published in the traditional way; but I only got as far as a second reading. I also tried to get an agent; but that's just as hard. I e-published it but only sold a couple of copies because it had no illustrations. Now I am going to get it published through a self-publisher. They will put it on Amazon, in Barnes and Noble and in an international catalog. It will also be featured at a book fair. We'll see if I sell any copies. Have a good weekend.

As a child and in my teens I wrote poems and short stories. I never tried to publish.

I never have

I have two books of poems self-published on Amazon, I used a publishing company services to help with formatting and the book covers,

I have written books. Some were published. Others were not. The ones that were I am secretive about them. One book was published by a publisher back in the day, but it was an anthology that I edited as Ivan S. Graves called Dark Whispers, which is still on Amazon, but no longer available after the original publisher sold to Mundania Press, and now Mundania Press is out of business. For several years I was founder of and editor of a popular online monthly (utlimately bimonthly) magazine called FrightNet. I also wrote the foreword for Grue Tales which was a short story collection by R.K. Finnell. I will say this. Books can be hard to sell, especially if one is not known, and even harder when they are self-published, but that being said, self-publishing has become way more recognized now than it used to be. When I put together Dark Whispers I had very deep connections with other famous authors in the horror genre, and of course FrightNet was a VERY popular magazine and that helped too.

i've seen one or two profiles that said they have written books and that's awesome. i haven't written a book yet, but i would like to